Catherine Allen is the founder and CEO of Limina Immersive, and a recognised authority on immersive and emerging technologies. She has advised organisations including the BBC, NSPCC, Meta and the Council of Europe, with her research and consulting shaping the UK’s Online Safety Act and wider European policy on the metaverse. Catherine sits on Meta’s Reality Labs Advisory Council, is an Honorary Doctor of Letters at the University of Warwick, and is widely known for bringing a human-centred, responsible innovation perspective to emerging technology. Her public engagement work includes expert op-eds, comment and analysis on immersive tech to outlets including Radio 4’s Today programme, The Sunday Times, Bloomberg, British Vogue, Wired Magazine and The Guardian.